EXCLUSIVE : Decades after her work in Vertigo, Picnic and Bell Book and Candle made her Hollywood’s biggest and most glamorous star, Kim Novak today came back for another closeup as the Venice Film Festival honored her with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The festival is also screening Kim Novak’s Vertigo , a documentary by Alexandre Philippe about a career that ended when she made the decision she’d had enough of the movie game. It is amusing how smitten that director clearly is with Novak, but after an hour on the phone with her, I too fell under her spell. After I told her to bring mosquito spray to Venice, she asked me about myself, and was soon counseling me on life in general and how best to help my 90-year old mother transition from a lonely apartment to an assi

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